Former presidential candidate Lt Gen (Rtd) Henry Kakurugu Tumukunde has shocked the world with the level at which he has aggressively gone bare knuckles with fellow bush war veterans.
Besides the tough responding opposition’s Dr. Kiiza Besigye’s tweet, Tumukunde comment to his successor security minister Gen Elly Tumwine has spilled bad blood.
In a headed online skirmish, The Kisoboka pressure group patron accuses Tumwine for blowing his trumpet on President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s peaceful power transition.
It should be noted that in his handover speech last week, Gen Tumwine said he will use his new role as senior presidential advisor on security to advise Museveni to leave power peacefully as a way of securing Uganda’s stability.
Museveni has ruled Uganda since 1986. In May, he started a new five-year term at the end of which he will have led Uganda for four decades.
The outgoing security minister feels it’s high time Museveni prepared for a smooth power transition and an honorable retirement.
Gen Tumwine handed over to former bush war comrade Maj Gen Jim Muhwezi who doubles as the Rujumbura country lawmaker.
He had succeeded Lt Gen Tumukunde in 2018 after he was unceremonious sacked along with the Inspector General of Police Gen. Kale Kayihura over what the president described as incompetence grounds.
But Tumwine’s statement on advising Museveni on transition have irked Tumukunde forcing the fromer Spy Chief to reminded Tumwine how he was not a monopolist of trumpets.
He emphasized the need for continuity as a way of securing the future and stability of Uganda.
“It’s easy to blow your own trumpet and forget that others have trumpets too,” Tumukunde reminded Tumwine.
“But that is not the point. The key point is there is no better way to safeguard the future of our country than to ensure and plan for its continuity.”
In her 59-year post-independence history, Uganda is yet to see a peaceful transition of power.
In his 1986 inaugural speech, Museveni diagnosed the problem of Africa as leaders who overstay in power.
